[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Flyer for Dec. 7 anti-war demo REVISED

[Karen Aram]

Carl

Anarchist? Are you kidding. 

The majority of people involved in AWARE over the past eight years and I believe those who originally initiated it, are liberal Democrats. A couple of us are socialists but only 3, 4 at most. An independent or two, but almost always supporting Democrats. 

You may consider yourself anarchist, but you speak for yourself.



> On Dec 3, 2019, at 09:04, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
> 
> AWARE has been for 20 years an anarchist rather than a liberal organization. Other “members and friends” might want to produce a flyer on UBI. 
> 
> BTW on the question of anarchist organization, people might want to read the late Ursula K. Le Guin’s "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” (1974) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed>, a political novel that seemed to me to rank with “The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists” (1914, 1955) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthropists>. —CGE
> 
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>> On Dec 3, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Much better. 
>> 
>> Though I do have a question given the flyer is supposed to reflect the opinions of most AWARE folks, or those who intend to be at the demo. Saturday: Do most members of AWARE support UBI?
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 3, 2019, at 08:30, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [Incorporates several suggestions from members & friends of AWARE]
>>> 
>>> =====================================================================================================
>>> “IMPEACH TRUMP!” is the U.S. political establishment’s way of distracting you from America’s war-making around the world
>>> 
>>> The U.S. media (owned by large corporations) continue to tell us how terrible President Trump is, but that is a way to avoid talking about how terrible U.S. government war-making is - most recently in Venezuela and Bolivia.
>>> 
>>> And in regard to killing people around the world, the Trump administration’s policy seems little different from that of the Obama administration - for all of President Trump’s assertions that he wants to end the Obama-Clinton wars.
>>> 
>>> President Obama inherited two shameful wars from the Bush administration (in Afghanistan and Iraq): he increased the number to eight (attacking Libya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as well) and became the first U.S. president ever to be at war throughout two terms. Not even presidents Roosevelt (WWII), Wilson (WWI), or Lincoln (Civil War) did that. 
>>> 
>>> As Barack Obama said in 2012, after ordering drone assassinations of American citizens, including minors (purposely),  “Turns out I’m really good at killing people; didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.” 
>>> 
>>> While “covering sin with smooth names,” Obama  continued America’s longest-standing foreign policy - attempting to prevent the integration of Eurasia, for fear that it would interfere with the U.S. elite’s economic exploitation of the rest of the world - by American war provocations against Russia and China, from Ukraine to the South China Sea.
>>> 
>>> Trump, after criticizing Obama’s war-making, has largely continued it - in part at least because he is under pressure from the ‘deep state’ to maintain the traditional US foreign policy of retarding the economic development of Russia and China.
>>> 
>>> Since the end of WWII,  the U.S. has killed more than 20 million people in wars (Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to destroy challenges to the economic hegemony the U.S. obtained as the only major country largely undamaged by WWII. (Russia lost 27 million people in defeating Naziism; U.S. losses in WWII totaled about a half million people.) 
>>> 
>>> That is why today international polls show that the U.S. is the most feared government in the world - not China, Russia, Iran, or Israel. The rest of the world recognizes that the U.S. government remains what Martin Luther King called it long ago: “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” 
>>> 
>>> With other peace groups around the world, we call upon our president and government 
>>> 	(a) to close the thousand U.S. military bases on foreign soil (most encircling Russia and China), 
>>> 	(b) to bring all U.S. troops (and weapons) home, and 
>>> 	(c) to provide social supports - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - for Americans, who have been made poorer by generations of our government’s wars.
>>> ~~~
>>> 
>>> In Illinois, send your opinion to your local representatives in Congress--
>>> 	~ Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
>>> 	~ Sen. Tammy Duckworth: <https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
>>> 	~ Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>
>>> ~~~
>>> 
>>> The ‘Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort’ is on Facebook at 
>>> <AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois>
>>> The TV program ‘AWARE on the Air,’ a local discussion of war news, is on 
>>> Urbana Public Television, Tuesdays at 10pm (& available on YouTube)
>>> 
>>> ###
>>> 
>>> 
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